Warhammer 2 map (speculation)

[Toho]

So after hearing about the 4 continents that CA named I think its reasonable to assume that the map for the main campaign is going to what is see above and how the two campaign maps will be possibly merging with each other shortly after release.
I guess from here we can speculate the minor factions and potential DLC factions... namely Tomb Kings for example... Maybe they will be the day one DLC! haha

[Mhaedros]

They said Ulthuan, Naggaroth, Lustria and the Southlands would be included, but also that the new map would be roughly the same size as the Old World map...Which is interesting looking at that map It probably means they're only including parts of Naggaroth, Lustria and the Southlands?

[Toho]

I think thats a fair assessment and dont forget they can also slightly bend and curve the continents as well.So if the south lands are pointing downwards in this map they could be curving to the left while Naggaroth could be curving towards the right. But I can guess the vortex is in the center or in the chaos north.
They can also make something smaller, for example in the current game Norsca is way thinner than it is shown on the map above.
One thing is obvious though. Ships are coming in addition to all the new units this area will be including.

[Daruwind]

Actually if we look at the old leaked info http://totalwars.ru/index.php/total-...ack-plans.html

It is not whole Southlands, Lustria or even Naggaroth...Actually the number of regions in all these new continent could be similar to old world :/

[ShockBlast]

Well they said that the Vortex campaign will comparable with the Old World map.
Maybe we will see the continents in their full glory if we own both games.

[Daruwind]

As I understand the joined campaign map might not be available from the start. CA said that they are focusing on campaign for warhammer 2 (as people with only w2 will have this option) while the combined map could be added shortly after (probably once they catch most bugs)...People with both games will have options to start 1) old world 2) "new world" 3) combined map.... this is similar to shorl/long/world domination campaign option in my point of view

There is one thing that caught my eye. The map at very top and map from leaked info are little different. The top one has all continents about the same size while in the leaked one the land mass of "new map" and old world is quite similar. So number of regions in both can be pretty similar. Because CA is cutting Southlands in a half, similar to Lustria and even Nagarroth is not as whole... W2 is supposed to have one third more regions than W1.

EDIT: all info is from https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-ii-coming-soon/

EDIT2: so the leaked info is really precise. So The big DLC will be probably Tomb Kings and Skaven. Meaning that from the start we can get Skaven not as fully flashed out faction....

EDIT3: Question is about game 3 as that would add only small portion of new land. And is missing Chaos wastes so I can imagine they might nelarge the datamined minimap. I would love to have full continents

[Påsan]

I would not really worry about the Skaven. They will be in release at worst in the same state as the Vampires or Orks was in the first game, at best they have improved and they'll be as fleshed out as the Wood Elves. I'd be prepared to not have some of the more obscure monsters and things though. Skave is a weird race and must cost numerous charlemagnes to animate.

[LestaT]

As I understand the joined campaign map might not be available from the start. CA said that they are focusing on campaign for warhammer 2 (as people with only w2 will have this option) while the combined map could be added shortly after (probably once they catch most bugs)...People with both games will have options to start 1) old world 2) "new world" 3) combined map.... this is similar to shorl/long/world domination campaign option in my point of view

There is one thing that caught my eye. The map at very top and map from leaked info are little different. The top one has all continents about the same size while in the leaked one the land mass of "new map" and old world is quite similar. So number of regions in both can be pretty similar. Because CA is cutting Southlands in a half, similar to Lustria and even Nagarroth is not as whole... W2 is supposed to have one third more regions than W1.

EDIT: all info is from https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-ii-coming-soon/

EDIT2: so the leaked info is really precise. So The big DLC will be probably Tomb Kings and Skaven. Meaning that from the start we can get Skaven not as fully flashed out faction....

EDIT3: Question is about game 3 as that would add only small portion of new land. And is missing Chaos wastes so I can imagine they might nelarge the datamined minimap. I would love to have full continents

It'll come within weeks (not months) so I guess between 2-3 weeks after gane 2 is out?

[Daruwind]

It'll come within weeks (not months) so I guess between 2-3 weeks after gane 2 is out?

Yup probably pretty soon. Like with first bigger patch? I will be out before we finish warhammer2 campaign for all new faction.

Anyway i have watched some new videos and read new predictions and it looks like the old datamined map could be outdated. So we might get full Lustria/Southlands. Only fact we have is number of regions which is roughly +1/3 bigger. So I still think we either have not complete continents or the new landmass is smaller or regions are much bigger.

[LestaT]

Yup probably pretty soon. Like with first bigger patch? I will be out befero we finish warhammer2 campaign for all new faction.

Anyway i have watched some new videos and read need predictions and it looks like the old datamined map could be outdated. So we might get full Lustria/Southlands. Only fact we have is number of regions which is roughly +1/3 bigger. So I still think we either have not complete continents or the new landmass or smaller or regions are much bigger.

I think the regions will be shrink a bit. After all there are not that many factions over there.

[Death_Sheep]

Hopefully Ulthuan will include the Five Great fortresses of the High Elves....

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[Ngugi]

Really looking foreward to this

[sataricon]

So when warhammer 1 dropped the promise was that when another game is released owners of say the first and second game will have a mega map that combined both maps.
We got a confirmation for this in the FAQ released after Total war: warhammer 2 announcement but i find the wording to vague.

https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/193394/warhammer-ii-faq

combined campaign map representing the geographical areas of both games in a single map.

Now what does representing the geographical areas mean?
is it the same map with all towns and land marks?
Oor is it just a bigger map that says here are mountains and dwarves live there....ETC.

[Daruwind]

Yesterday twitch about combined map.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...1#post15297301

Some another infos

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...1#post15289289

Sorry, i´m lazy to write it again....hope you understand.

[Frunk]

Similar threads merged.

[Ichon]

So when warhammer 1 dropped the promise was that when another game is released owners of say the first and second game will have a mega map that combined both maps.
We got a confirmation for this in the FAQ released after Total war: warhammer 2 announcement but i find the wording to vague.

Now what does representing the geographical areas mean?
is it the same map with all towns and land marks?
Oor is it just a bigger map that says here are mountains and dwarves live there....ETC.

Basically CA has most recently said the combined map will be both the game 1 and game 2 maps re-made into a single combined maps with a couple regions on the edges dropped off to ensure smooth fit. CA stated that no playable factions will be dropped but one or two start positions might be moved. To me that suggest Wurrzag and maybe some Lustria or Skaven positions might be slightly changed with the map merge but otherwise if both maps have individually 150 regions the combined map might have something like 297 regions.

In reality I think from other statements CA has made the current Old World map which is 52 provinces and about 174 regions (including sea regions) where the New World map is going to be roughly the same size but with more playable regions (either less sea regions, or no Norscan/Chaos uninhabitale areas). So if we figure New World has 54 provinces and 176 regions(less sea regions) the combined map will be something between 100-106 provinces and 340-350 regions *including sea regions. Playable regions then are probably over 320 with 20-30 sea regions.

[VM_Mort]

What are they gonna put in south lands and Arabia, we barely know anything about this area.

[Daruwind]

What are they gonna put in south lands and Arabia, we barely know anything about this area.

Firstly we have no idea if we will get whole Southlands/ Lustria. Leaked map had +/-half of both continents. But i won´t worry about inhabitants too much... Just in Southlands there is a lot of greenskin tribes, Lizardmen, settlements from high elves (Fortress of Dawn) , humans trading colonies....skavens...dwarves (very famous Karak Zorn - Lost hold)...Similar things are true for Lustria with even vampire pirates So even if we get whole continents, CA has plenty info to fill it in.....and I´m leaving out all bigger players like Tomb Kings, Araby...

[Chlodwig I.]

I doubt that they will include all of the yellow coloured part of the map in Post #1

I guess when they include the southlands they will only include the coastline similar to how they included the Chaos Waste in Old World Map
so 3-4 Provinces with 2-3 Regions in each.

[Mhaedros]

I doubt that they will include all of the yellow coloured part of the map in Post #1

I guess when they include the southlands they will only include the coastline similar to how they included the Chaos Waste in Old World Map
so 3-4 Provinces with 2-3 Regions in each.

I doubt they'd go to the trouble of adding the Southlands at all if they were only putting 3 provinces in it. That said, the yellow part in the OP is probably too big indeed, the map will probably be split so roughly a third of the regions are on each continent.